Guides

Cost optimization strategies

Reduce spend without degrading product quality.

Practical optimization

Strategy	Impact
Default to Conrad 4.0	Strong balance of quality and cost for most workloads.
Use Conrad 3.1 for utility jobs	Reduces spend on internal tools and lightweight automations.
Summarize old history	Cuts unnecessary context tokens in long-running chats.
Set max_output_tokens	Prevents avoidable over-generation.